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Trump decries immigrants from 'shithole countries' coming to US
CNN ^ | 01/11/2018 | By Eli Watkins and Abby Phillip, CNN

Posted on 01/11/2018 2:53:14 PM PST by Red Badger

President Donald Trump expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from "shithole countries," The Washington Post reported Thursday. "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump said, according to the Post, which cited two people briefed on the Thursday Oval Office meeting with lawmakers. Trump, in vulgar terms, rejects bipartisan immigration proposal at White House meeting

When lawmakers in the meeting floated restoring Temporary Protected Status for some immigrants, Trump grew frustrated and shocked the lawmakers with his "shithole" comment in reference to African countries and Haiti, according to the Post. Trump then suggested the US should bring in more people from countries like Norway, the report said. A person briefed on the meeting told CNN that Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin was running through a proposal listing countries that would be covered by TPS protections in exchange for ending the visa lottery. The person said when Durbin got to Haiti, Trump began to ask why we want people from Haiti in the US and asked why we want more Africans. The President then said, according to this person, why do we want all these people from "shithole countries" coming here -- and added that the US should get more people from countries like Norway.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bordersecurity
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To: Red Badger

According to The Post. According to The Post... Is that the only verification? Personally, Im glad he said it if he did say it. Lib heads are exploding.


101 posted on 01/11/2018 5:27:34 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Maybe he meant to say “chipotle” countries ;?


102 posted on 01/11/2018 5:31:05 PM PST by mikrofon (New Year 2018 BUMP)
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To: All

Any honest Dem would say :”To fatten up our voter rolls, sir!”


103 posted on 01/12/2018 5:21:18 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: OttawaFreeper
And I bet Hillary had equally pleasant things to say about certain countries as well, eh?

Only if they contributed a goodly size donation to the Clinton Foundation....................

104 posted on 01/12/2018 6:14:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: FrankR

What the MSM does not realize is that they are actually helping re-elect Trump.

Even a lot of Dems agree with his statement, though they won’t say so in public..............


105 posted on 01/12/2018 6:17:11 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: heights

Exactly!...............


106 posted on 01/12/2018 6:18:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Leep

.....and illiterate............


107 posted on 01/12/2018 6:18:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: pabianice

I guarantee you that each and every ‘journalist’ from the MSM has actually said that about every third world country they have had to cover in their career..................


108 posted on 01/12/2018 6:22:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: adorno

Bingo!

If they were tropical paradises they would still be there................


109 posted on 01/12/2018 6:24:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

When was the last time any of these people vacationed in Haiti or Venezula?

When commercials come on begging for money for little kids starving in mud huts, covered in flies are the visuals meant to inspire comfort or horror?

If these places aren’t shitholes, then why the hell aren’t people flocking to them?


110 posted on 01/12/2018 6:28:01 AM PST by JenB987
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To: Red Badger

The truth is ugly,eh? Do people ‘escape’ paradises? It’s 2018 and yes- there are still backward,uncivilized shithole countries. Not our fault-theirs. If these lovely places are NOT bad why do their citizens not want to return? Don’t like being called a shithole country? FIX IT. Fix your attitudes and mentality then change the visual evidence that your countries ARE the shitholes from which you ran away!


111 posted on 01/12/2018 6:33:33 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: JenB987

If Castro’s Cuba is such a great place to live, why are the Haitians not flocking there, since it is a much shorter trip?..........Answer: Cuba sinks any Haitian refugee ships on sight.........................


112 posted on 01/12/2018 6:34:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Haiti and The Dominican Republic share the same island. They both speak French.

Haiti has the Western third and Dominican Republic has the Eastern two-thirds.

Look at a satellite pic of the island.

The East two thirds are a tropical paradise, full of plants and lovely.

The Western third has denuded hills and bare dirt, hardly any trees or vegetation at all.

The people of Dominican Republic are not fleeing their country in droves. They are a vacation spot that people love to travel to and spend their money.


113 posted on 01/12/2018 6:40:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: hardspunned

They will keep trying..............


114 posted on 01/12/2018 6:41:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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